Literature Cannot Be The Business Of A Woman's Life, And It Ought Not To Be.

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Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to
be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure she will
have for it, even as an accomplishment and recreation. To those duties you
have not yet been called, and when you are you will be less eager for
celebrity.
-- Robert Southey (to Charlotte Bronte)

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